“When a country’s president intends to vote against the country’s independence, everything is clear. In this respect, yes, we are behind Moldova,” wrote Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili in his Facebook post.

According to Shalva Papuashvili, Georgia’s European integration is the path of an independent state rather than its abolition.

“What can we do? We are not giving up our three thousand years, which is proof that if you believe in your national identity, then even a ‘small country’ can establish its own statehood in the historical turmoil. At the same time, this statement indicates that the President of Moldova is sceptical about the country’s prospects of integration into the EU independently and considers the German Democratic Republic scenario, the way which brought the GDR into the European Union on the very day it joined the Federal Republic of Germany. What can be said? This is also a way to Europe by losing sovereignty. I am confident that our nurtured ‘hyper-Europeans’ might be looking to these two countries and by citing Article 78 ot the Constitution would cede Georgia’s sovereignty immediately. For them, no article is worth an article before Article 78. For us, the issue is simple – Georgia’s European path is the path of an independent state, not its abolition.

P.S. By the way, do not forget that on October 4, at the exact time when the storming of the Georgian presidential palace was underway, Maia Sandu, with an open and public statement, expressed support to violent groups involved in the attempt to overthrow the government,” he said.

For the record, Moldovan President Maia Sandu said she would vote in favour of unification with neighbouring European Union and NATO member Romania if a referendum were to take place to help protect its fragile democracy against Russian pressure.

“If we have a referendum, I would vote for the unification with Romania,” she said in an interview for the British podcast ‘The Rest is Politics’, broadcast on Sunday.

“Look at what is happening around Moldova today, look at what is happening in the world. It is becoming increasingly difficult for a country like Moldova to survive, to exist as a democracy, as a sovereign country,” Maia Sandu said.